GEOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A geographer gives a site’s exact position using latitude and longitude. Of the five geographic themes, this is the one being identified.
What is location?
Terracing a hillside for farming is an example of this geographic theme because people modify their surroundings.
What is human-environment interaction?
The “Corn Belt” groups places by a shared agricultural trait rather than political borders, illustrating this theme.
What is region?
A student sketches the route from home to school from memory, producing this internal representation of space.
What is a mental map?
Caring for resources while exercising authority over Earth combines these two responsibilities taught with the biblical calling of humanity.
What are dominion and stewardship?
A point at 35° N, 120° E belongs to these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres?
A point at 18° S, 70° W belongs to these two hemispheres.
What are the Southern and Western Hemispheres?
The paired latitude and longitude numbers used to pinpoint an exact position are called these.
What are geographic coordinates?
Any circle that divides Earth into two equal halves—including the equator—is this kind of circle.
What is a great circle?
The equator and prime meridian meet at this coordinate pair in the Gulf of Guinea.
What is 0° latitude, 0° longitude?
If Greenland appears with an incorrect outline after Earth is flattened, this particular property has been distorted.
What is shape?
When a high-latitude landmass appears far larger than it truly is, this particular property has been distorted.
What is size or area?
When the space between two cities looks inaccurate on a projection, this particular property has been distorted.
What is distance?
A projection that makes compass bearings unreliable has distorted this particular property.
What is direction?
On an azimuthal map, accuracy is greatest in this part and decreases outward.
What is the center?
A cartographer wants mountains and valleys—not one special data topic—to be visible. This is the appropriate map type.
What is a relief map?
Each contour line joins places sharing the same measurement of height above sea level.
What is elevation or altitude?
A field team determines its exact position by receiving signals from orbiting satellites through this technology.
What is GPS?
Remote sensors commonly gather geographic information from these two platforms above Earth.
What are aircraft and satellites?
Flood zones, roads, and population can be compared because GIS stacks information in these separate but aligned components.
What are data layers?
Families, clans, and social classes belong to this cultural theme.
What are social groups?
A society’s beliefs about God, worship, and sacred practices belong to this cultural theme.
What is religion?
Building homes suited to a desert climate demonstrates this relationship between people and their surroundings.
What is human adaptation to the environment?
Repeated practices and inherited ways of life are summarized by these two parts of culture.
What are customs and traditions?
A temple, clan system, paintings, and desert housing collectively show that these organizing aspects of culture influence one another.
What are the cultural themes?